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law, your vacation benefits will continue to accrue and other benefits may continue.
Additional information regarding military leaves may be obtained from your supervisor.
• For periods of military service for less than 31 days or for a fitness examination,
employees must report back to work at the next regularly scheduled workday after
the expiration of eight hours and after a period allowing for safe transportation from
the place of service to the employee’s residence.
• For periods of military service of more than 30 days, but less than 181 days,
employees must apply for reemployment within fourteen (14) days after completing
service. If it is impossible or unreasonable to do so, through no fault of his or her
own, the employee must apply for reemployment no later than the next full calendar
day after it becomes possible to do so.
• Following a period of 180 days or more, employees must apply for reemployment
within ninety (90) days after completing service.
Disaster and Emergency Services Leave
Employees who serve as “volunteer emergency responders” are entitled to up to ten
(10) days of unpaid time off each calendar year (consistent with state and federal law
(Volunteer Emergency Responder Job Protection Act.) when they are absent from
work in order to respond to an "emergency or disaster" as declared by the Governor
of New Mexico or the President of the United States.
For purposes of this leave, "volunteer emergency responder" means a person who is a
member in good standing of a volunteer fire department, an emergency medical
service, a search and rescue team or a law enforcement agency or who is enrolled by
the state or a political subdivision of the state for response to an emergency or
disaster.
Employees utilizing this leave should make reasonable efforts to notify Cliff’s
Amusement Park of their service and should continue to make reasonable notification
efforts over the course of any absence.
Cliff’s Amusement Park may request that an employee provide a written verification
from the office of emergency management or a state or local official managing an
emergency or disaster of the dates and time that the employee served as a volunteer
emergency responder.
For more information regarding this leave, please see your supervisor.
Domestic Abuse or Sexual Violence (DASV)
Cliff’s Amusement Park will grant up to 14 days of DASV unpaid leave in any calendar
year to an employee who is a victim of domestic abuse or sexual violence, or who has a
family or household member who has been a victim. Alternatively, the employee may use
accrued PTO. When possible, please provide Cliff’s Amusement Park with at least 48
hours advance notice of DASV leave.
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